#c: Lacey

[lcvewaslcst]

@luriddaze

the years that had clouded the space between the last time she even surrounded herself with these same people - had not been kind to her. a multitude of failed relationships littered her past. but, the truth was that she never really seemed to capture the magic of her dumb high school boyfriend. which, in retrospect - sounded fucking ridiculous. but, it was what had managed to get her hear. now. walking into the gym of her old high school years after graduation. scribbling her name on a little name tag, she slapped it to her chest and filtered into the door. immediately, she's approached, and while maintaining moderate conversation and small talk, her eyes were lifting and scanning the room - desperate for one person and one person alone.

[sterlingxlevin]

closed starter: @laceyxpierce

where: outside driftwood

As much as Sterling's life had completely changed over the last several years-- even the last few months, she always knew there would be one constant she could count on. Lacey. They became friends in high school and they'd been thick and thieves since. Lacey was one of the few people who stuck around throughout Sterling's pregnancy with Sunny, and she helped Sterling when she was struggling with depression She had always been there, even before Liza and Sterling had become as close as they are now. To have someone Lacey in her life meant so much to her.

The two always tried to spend what time they could together, so when their plans worked out to meet for coffee, they did just that. "How's life? Hopefully not as crazy as mine has been lately." Sterling joked, laughing softly as she thought about how glad she was that things were starting to calm down.

[void-botanist]

Happy STS! If your characters went out to karaoke, which song would they belt out at the top of their lungs?

Finally getting to this one! My mind remains full of Elbas Island so if we pretended that they know Earth music:

Milo: the idea of him doing Barbie Girl with Binna, where he is Barbie and Binna is Ken is just too funny to not be the answer.

Nidilaenn: Major Tom (Coming Home).

Ellery: Poor Unfortunate Souls. He wants to be dramatic about it and he wants you to understand how dramatic he's being about it.

Patience: Hollaback Girl. You know Mel is singing backup.

Mel: Last Dance by Donna Summer.

Tirias: she literally cannot sing so she would either put on a song everyone knows (All Star) and let them sing it while she hams it up or announce that this is a rendition of John Cage's 4'33". These two things get different responses from the audience but they are functionally the same thing.

Ysa: Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks.

Rae: Any Way You Want It by Journey.

Madge: Sucker by Jonas Brothers.

Rigo: Break My Heart by Dua Lipa.

Haskell: no, I don't do karaoke, no...well, I guess... Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

Lacey: the most heartfelt rendition of Mary Had A Little Lamb you've ever heard.

[muckyschmuck]

cool dogs bro

[zhsocial]

My personal headcanon VAs for the BB Elite Four:

Crispin- Amanda C. Miller

Amarys- Sydney Mikayla

Lacey- Xanthe Huynh

Drayton- Zeno Robinson

[diver5ion]

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

Summer TCA - July 11, 2024 Hallmark Panel

(photos from Hallmark's official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts)

[bettslovesromance]

[barzfrommarz]

🎀

[alexandriaxvargas]

who: @laceyxpierce where: end of the summer bash

"Salmon vodka, really?" Lexie sighed heavily as she approached her ex girlfriend. As far as she was aware, she hadn't pissed anyone else off so the unwanted gift on her doorstep must have come from Lacey. Confronting her at the party when she was a couple of drinks in probably wasn't the wisest idea but she wasn't sure when she'd see her next. "Real mature, Lace. What the fuck am I supposed to do with salmon fucking vodka?"

[the-chickenshit-oddity]

ouat prompt

was thinking about henry and how he came to be with regina, and it just seems so unbelievable to me that rumple wouldn't have known whose son he was, so this is a prompt for an AU in which he knew. i don't know, maybe he saw it in a crystal ball. so when regina comes to him (coincidence? i think not), he makes sure to get henry specifically, and then slowly works to get regina out of the way so he can use henry as a do-over for dickhead cassidy. and hey, maybe regina ends up with lacey, yeah? and all the more reason for baby henry to go running straight to emma, cue season one.

[plasma-packin-mama]

Lacey from @super-shishkebab and June :3 girl best friends...

[maepolzine]

The Read-Cap: Week of June 1, 2024

Sharing all the books that I read in the last week and what I'm planning on reading next.

This week was a kindle romance week mainly as I realized several things came out within the last month from series I enjoy. And those new releases pushed back other things in the TBR pile, but in theory I’ll get to them starting next week. If you are new to the Read-Cap this a weekly post I’m doing where I share what I’ve been reading in the last week and what I plan on reading next. If I finish…

[void-botanist]

Happy WBW!!!

Have you developed any etiquette in Nicea (or other wips) — polite or rude? Is there anything that’s considered “too crass” for polite company?

— @outpost51

Okay, well, first of all, do not call permanent planetsiders "groundgrazers" in polite company. In fact do not take your etiquette cues from Isabel unless she has her captain voice on.

Some other things I thought of:

When you're docked at a spaceport (i.e. the kind with space elevators that go to the actual planet) it's common to use the airlock on the station side as a foyer/meeting spot because ideally you don't actually need to worry about pressure and air content going from your ship into what is essentially a space airport. But it's generally considered rude to hang out in your airlock with the station door open. It doesn't really hurt anything, except there is nothing to keep the sound from echoing and being annoying.

When entering a starship with artificial gravity, it's polite to compliment the hand-painted magic pigment patterns that create said artificial gravity. Sometimes that's the equivalent of saying "you have a lovely home" and sometimes it's like "dude sick floor. who did it??"

Copying over what I said in the tags on that post about Bo, witches wear gloves as a group signifier and a courtesy because one type of witch—dive witches—can read people's minds on contact. Even though you can only be one kind of witch and most are not dive witches, it's rude to taboo for witches to not wear gloves. (In a few systems, it's straight up illegal and you can be fined; however, this is only a functional rule in witch-only areas because otherwise it's literally people calling out anyone who looks too weird, nevermind that most witches dress in a "normal" way and there is no physical "witch" attribute.) In the Nicea's home locality, it generally falls on the rude end of the spectrum.

In many systems, but Antarac and Rade especially, it's not rude/weird to ask if someone is adopted. Like, maybe don't ask it the first time you meet someone, but so many people are adopted and so many families are a mix of the four known species (humans, cow people [I've been just calling them bovids; think "catgirl"/"catboy" but with cow features instead], werewolves [shifters], and dragon people [straight up bipedal/humanoid dragons]) that it doesn't carry the implication of being Different or not belonging. (If you ask it in less diverse parts of Gevorad or in Hybres they probably assume you're from one of the more mixed areas/systems.)

On Rade, it's particularly rude to give people cut flowers. Cut flowers are associated with death because they are typically what people put on graves (because they decompose and don't disrupt natural burial sites). If you want to get someone a plant for reasons other than burning bridges, get them a living plant.

On Gevorad, baking is a big deal, and there's some etiquette around giving people baked goods as gifts. Allergies/preferences notwithstanding, there are common associations between certain pastries and specific situations/milestones. Which means people have genuine conversations that sound like "you gave her a donut?? a COLD donut??? no wonder she didn't wanna go out with you". (I came up with this based on the current theory that Isabel and Rodney's dad is a baker and the ominous Family Business they want nothing to do with is literally just a bakery.)

I also wanna drop one rude thing from TFA here because Dez does this and mildly gets in trouble: calling tree people "trees". Their species name is actually "uep" and while "tree" isn't like a slur it is also something that Dez should have thought more than twice about before saying in front of a bunch of elementary schoolers at storytime. Relevant excerpt:

“I see you’ve brought a friend,” Jaccson said. “Mmhmm,” Lacey said, still not letting go of his fingers. “His name is Dez and he’s a blob.” Jaccson’s smile widened as one of the other sprouts said, “He’s obviously a robot.” “I’m an android, actually,” he said, and once again felt everyone’s attention shift from that other sprout back to him, which only made him feel more gigantic. He was too tall to be sitting among children. “What’s the difference?” the sprout asked. Per was big enough to be much older than Lacey, but didn’t sound like it. Maybe it was a species difference, because this other kid was a redbud. “An android is a type of robot,” he said, formulating his syntax based on his general understanding of network content for children. “So then you’re an android and a robot,” the sprout said. What per didn’t say was “and that’s why I’m right”, but he got that loud and clear anyway. “Yeah,” he conceded, “but calling me a robot is like calling you a tree. It’s not very useful.” He hoped he didn’t also have to say that it wasn’t very nice, either, in his opinion. Judging by the general widening of eyes around him, he suspected not.

(It's also rude to call uep children by something other than per/per pronouns unless they tell you otherwise. Some switch to other pronouns at a young age, some do it later, and a few never do. And it's rude to call Dez a robot because even though this random kid doesn't know it, he does not like that and will explain that as far as he's concerned robot is a category for roombas and such.)

Nicea taglist: @kahvilahuhut

[bittcnneck]

LACEY what's your bra size

her heart beats in her ears at the question, her eyes widening. She stares at the ask for a while, feeling a bead of sweat go down her forehead.

she deletes the question, and lets out a deep breath she didn't even realize she was holding.

[eternalstateofoctober]

help i’m addicted to online thrifting